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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Nope.The internet throws up several not-very-convincing origins for this, most plausible to my mind is that it’s from bookkeeping, in which the total at the bottom (“end”) of the column of income must at least match that at the bottom of the expenditure column if one is not to be living beyond one’s income.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 13:48,
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